All browsers crash occasionally, and Firefox was never an exception. Perhaps once a month, it would hang, and then crash. That's fine.

Lately, however, in the last few weeks, it's been getting much worse. Firefox seems to be crashing at least once a day.

First it says something about memory limits (Firefox is currently using 137 MB RAM, with 5 tabs), then some of the toolbar buttons disappear and colours in the main bar go all strange, then I exit. It crashes if I don't, so I just want to speed it up. I then re-open Firefox. The Crash Reporter comes up, and I report the crash. The Restore Session tab opens, and I restore my previous tabs. It's just about a minute of inconvenience, but it's an inconvenience all the same.

Am I the only one this is happening to, or is it a widespread problem? And no, I'm not changing browsers. Firefox could crash once an hour and I couldn't consider losing its benefits and switching to Chrome or (ugh) IE.

I wouldn't switch to Chrome or (ugh) IE, either.....

I believe your computer may be haunted. >_o

Sorry, but that's the most scientific explanation I could come up with.

yeah, I had that a while ago, I used Chrome for a while then came back to FF, it work's fine now wierdly

Haunted?!

Who am I gonna call?

Twesterm?

Does Fx download updates in the background? If so, it might have updated and caused some kind of issue. Try reinstalling the latest stable build.

Or.... you could try a *coughbettercough* different browser.

this actually happened to me a lot now... a few crashes everyday on sites I visit all the time including this site... not sure what's happening with FF :(

If you don't want to switch to Chrome/IE, then try Opera. It lacks some features, that FF has (such as Spell check) but it works far better than IE

Opera now has spellcheck, update to the latest version.

http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/8364/operaspellcheck.jpg <-- See,